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Frank Rodriguez and Paul Pierandozzi are partners at Kustom Creative. Our name pays homage to the wild creative vision of the early ’60s California Kustom Car scene, the hot rod culture that took root in Los Angeles and Orange County after WWII, when Ed Roth, Dean Jeffries, George Barris and others began to modify contemporary automobile designs from Detroit and make something fantastical and unique. Author Tom Wolfe dedicated a chapter to these innovators in his groundbreaking 1965 book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. It is this spirit of innovation, pushing boundaries, and not settling for an assembly line product that we hold close to our hearts.

We have spent most of our careers working in marketing, design and advertising. From decade long positions on the corporate side, to working at some of the best known design agencies, we have experience on both sides of the creative world. We also have promoted notorious underground clubs, created landmark zines, and played in bands. In our spare time, we write for art magazines, tend organic gardens, and even raise children